One of the main things propping up “the economy” is record breaking amounts of American fossil fuels production…
Green energy takes that away and hurts the fossil fuel industry, which makes a lot of political donations.
And before anyone tries to bring up the 2022 climate bill, they should read up on what it actually does:
The fossil fuel industry’s ambitions are now directly linked to wind and solar development: The bill prohibits leasing of federal lands and waters for renewable energy unless the government has offered at least 2 million acres (810,000 hectares) of public land and 60 million acres (24 million hectares) in federal waters for oil and gas leasing during the prior year. The law does not require leases to be sold, only offered for sale.
apnews.com/…/biden-technology-science-oil-and-gas…
Don’t just read the title of a bill/order and think it honestly represents what’s in the bill, it used to only be republicans that fell for that stuff
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
The US is free to give its own industry similar subsidies as China. Then both can flood the global market with cheap green energy products. There are lots of countries besides the US, who would love to buy a lot of cheap green energy products to reduce emissions and in many cases have green growth, if that is even possible. Countries like Ethiopia banning combustion engine car imports would be impossible without Chinas overproduction.